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BY BLACKTIE-COLORADO.COM
PITON FOUNDATION STEPS IN WITH MEMORIAL FOR SLAIN POLICE OFFICER: Five months after she was fatally wounded at City Park Jazz, Denver police Officer Celena Hollis will have a memorial created in an area she patrolled. The Piton Foundation is funding a memorial at the Holly Peace Mural Park at East 33rd Avenue and Holly Street in the Park Hill neighborhood.
GEORGE CLOONEY was recognized recently for his charity work at a star-studded gala in Los Angeles. Celebrities including Sidney Poitier, Julianne Hough, Jennie Garth, Carmen Electra and Nicollette Sheridan all turned out to see the Ocean’s Eleven star as he was honoured for his humanitarianism at the Carousel of Hope ball in Beverly Hills. The black-tie fundraiser pulls in money for the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Colorado.
LATEST ‘CAPTURED EVENTS’ ON BLACKTIE
* November 02, 2012 – Museum after Dark: A Night in Pompeii
* November 01, 2012 – The 35th Starz Denver Film Festival
* November 03, 2012 – Cocktails & Karaoke
ASPEN ASKS FOR MONEY: A plethora of local nonprofits are staging, or in the midst of, multimillion-dollar capital campaign fundraising efforts, seeking charitable support from donors in post-recession Aspen.
VISIT DENVER, the Convention & Visitors Bureau, invites art lovers to create a “Denver Hearts the Arts” Pinterest board and start pinning artistic images from around the city. The Pinterest board that earns the most followers will receive a special prize – a year-long membership to five of Denver’s top cultural facilities: the Denver Art Museum; the Denver Museum of Nature & Science; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver; the Clyfford Still Museum; and the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art.
TAKE NOTICE, GRANT WRITERS: In its sixth year of grantmaking, Roots & Branches Foundation, an initiative of Rose Community Foundation, will grant a total of $68,220 to nonprofit organizations serving Greater Denver and Boulder. Roots & Branches Foundation has established two funding priorities for the year: supporting access to high-quality integrated health services for low-income and uninsured people; and engaging Jewish people ages 21 to 40 in ongoing volunteer programs that promote social justice.
CHILI-LOVERS gathered for a cook-off Sunday to benefit victims of this year’s Colorado wildfires. The Hatch Foundation held its 7th Annual Meanest Chili Cook-off at Denver’s Oriental Theater to benefit The Colorado Fire Relief Fund 2012.
BLACKTIE IS SPONSORING A FREE SEMINAR on how to use video to enhance your fundraising and events. It’s 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 at Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center, 7800 E Tufts Ave. Register here.
ADVERTISE YOUR EVENT on Blacktie-Colorado for just $150 a week. Email Brett McCann-Lehl at brett@blacktie-llc.com.
BEAT STREET PLUG PULLED: Following three years of discussion and restructuring with key partners, including the Town of Vail and Anheuser Busch, the Vail Valley Foundation has decided to bring down the final curtain on Bud Light Street Beat, retiring the 13-year-old free concert series from the nonprofit organization’s slate of entertainment events. “While it is hard for us to let Bud Light Street Beat go,” explained Ceil Folz, president of the Vail Valley Foundation, “we, as well as our partners, are convinced that it is the right thing to do. Street Beat was a great addition to Vail Village and really accomplished everything we had all hoped for when it was created.”
THE DENVER CSU ALUMNI NETWORK is looking for projects in the first half of 2013 to participate in as a volunteer group. Email: knpohly@yahoo.com
Whatever your spiritual tradition or path, we invite you to step away from the hectic preparations for Christmas. Come spend an evening in the soaring setting of the Cathedral, absorbed in the beloved music of Messiah.
Tickets are $24 (row 44 and lower), $21 (row 45 and higher, and the gallery), and $15 for students and seniors age 65 and over.
Please note that the first two rows of seats are reserved for patrons. For information on becoming a Patron, please contact Stephen Tappe at 303-577-7726. Please also note that your ticket guarantees you a seat within your chosen row only. The nursery is open for these performances.
HANDEL’S MESSIAH (ABOVE) IS USING EFFICIENT TICKETS. Consider Efficient Tickets, Blacktie’s sister company, for your next ticketed event. Online ticketing is inexpensive, consumer-friendly and provides your organization with valuable purchasing and entrance data. Contact Brett McCann-Lehl at 303-339-3819.
HAVING TROUBLE MANAGING DONATION REQUESTS? Blacktie can set up a website for your business or organization that makes it easy for you to be responsive to charity requests and carefully manage all aspects of the process. Here’s a request page we set up for a local company. For information about BT Donation Tracker, call Don Knox at 720-272-0961.
THE STORY BEHIND THOSE PINK PUMPKIN SEEDS: “For Carol Froese, an accidental discovery about five years ago in a pumpkin field east of Cheraw came as a blessing in disguise. Twelve years as a breast cancer survivor, Carol, co-owner of Colorado Seeds Inc., a business she operates alongside her husband David and sons Jacob and Josh, spotted what appeared to be a pink pumpkin. … In the five years since the pink pumpkin discovery, the Froese family, alongside their exclusive partner DP Seeds out of Yuma, Ariz., has cultivated the seed and has established a very deliberate goal when facing the effects of breast cancer.” — Bent County Democrat.
DID YOU KNOW? You can advertise your nonprofit event easily and affordably to 300,000 readers in the 17 Colorado Community Media newspapers from Thornton to Castle Rock? Blacktie offers discounted rates to organizations that have not previously advertised in the CCM publications. These publications include Arvada Press, Castle Rock News-Press, Centennial Citizen, Douglas County News-Press, Englewood Herald, Golden Transcript, Highlands Ranch Herald, Lakewood Sentinel, Littleton Independent, Lone Tree Voice, Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel, Parker Chronicle, Westminster Window, Westsider and Wheat Ridge Transcript. Call Brett McCann-Lehl or Don Knox at 303-832-2903 for more details!
DO YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR A FUTURE ISSUE OF BLACKTIE FOR BUSINESS? Send an email to the editor, Don Knox.
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